Quonset Point NAS – March 29, 1945

At 3:36 a.m. on the morning of March 29, 1945, an Ensign was practicing night landings and take offs at Quonset Point NAS in an F6F-5N Hellcat, (Bu. No. 71001). As the pilot was coming in to land, the right wing of the aircraft suddenly dropped and the plane rolled over and crashed into a wall. The aircraft was completely wrecked, and the pilot received lacerations, burses, and possible internal injuries, but he later recovered.